(1) “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people — his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.”
The author is comparing how some children in society view there parents just because they aren’t successful. A lot of sons and daughters are embarrassed by how their parents don’t make a lot of money or have great jobs. Not accepting their parents for who they are the children start imagining fake parents to impress their friends or just cope with having unsuccessful parents. That is why their imagination can not accept who their parents truly are because the “fake” parents they made up are truly better in their mind. The sad part is no matte how hard parents try or show their love the kid still doesn’t accept their parents because it is not enough for them. (121 words)
(2) “He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself”
People are always puzzled by how destiny works and spend time trying to figure it out. The author compares drums to destiny because destiny can always change like the beat of a drum. That is why no matter how much time a person spends trying to figure out what their destiny might be, they won’t because it can change at any time. The author is trying to get people to just try to live their life and not worry what destiny has planned for them. If the person lives and doesn’t worry how their life will play out or how one thing will affect it, they will spend more time living then wonder what is destine for them. (120 words)
(3) “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
Summers are very hot and just unbearable sometimes in life. This causes people to live different lives because they aren’t motivated to get out of the house due to the heat. When fall comes around the season is more calm and enjoyable, unlike summer where the people are miserable. In fall people are going crazy like the characters in Great Gatsby wondering when this heat will end. That is the point the author might be trying to get at is times might be tough right now but fall is around the corner and life will start over. (98 words)
(4) “It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
The author believes the biggest difference that set men apart is if a man is well or sick. This is very true because when a man is sick he is weakened in the mind set and can not compete with some one who is well. That goes the same with race because a sick white male will not be able to compete with a well black male and vise versa. This is a big difference because what if the next president becomes ill and can not think straight and makes a far less intelligent man seem better to the public. This is why being sick or well is a great difference in a man. (114 words)
(5) “There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind”
A person with a simple mind is easily convinced by anything that is said with confidence. By having a simple mind the person will fall for anything so if two people tell this simple minded person two opposite things they will believe them. This will cause confusion in their mind because they believe both but do not actually think about who can be telling the truth or trying to trick them. That is why there is no confusion like this kind because the simple minded get confused all the time even over the easiest ideas. (95 words)
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